iSeries Software and Support

Happy New Year from First Option (iSeries Software and Support)

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 04th January | 0 Comment(s)

Happy New Year from your iSeries Software and Support Partner!   All of us at First Option want to thank you for your business, loyalty, and support in 2024.   May the New Year bring us mor [...]

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Happy Holidays from First Option

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 25th December | 0 Comment(s)

Happy Holidays   Wishing you a beautiful holiday season and a new year of peace and happiness from all of us at  First Option!  [...]

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iSeries Monitoring

iSeries Monitoring Software

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 17th December | 0 Comment(s)

iSeries Monitoring Software Watchdog by First Option is an iSeries monitoring software solution that provides centralized management via a user friendly interface for key system health threshold ale [...]

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Sunset iSeries or Archive

Sunset iSeries – Archive

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 20th November | 0 Comment(s)

Here's something we are hearing more about these days, "Sunset iSeries or Archive data" What does this mean exactly?  Some companies have decided to get off the iSeries platform but need to store t [...]

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Cloud Hosting

Print Platform Cloud Service

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 01st August | 0 Comment(s)

New Offering Through Ricoh USA From the cloud, Print Platform Cloud Service lets you take a proactive approach to your always-on goals by staying on top of the most advanced software solutions and [...]

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Your IBM i Administrator is Retiring – Time for Cloud Hosting?

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 18th June | 0 Comment(s)

Time for Cloud Hosting and Disaster Recovery Services?   Your IBM i administrator/programmer has just announced retirement.  She is a 30 year veteran that performs your backups, server management, [...]

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Ransomware, Ricoh, Cyber Attack

Managed Security Solutions- by Ricoh

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 15th April | 0 Comment(s)

Nearly 60% of cyberattacks affect small and medium-sized businesses. *2019 Investigations Report by Verizon New Offering Through Ricoh USA - BullWall RansomCare RansomCare (Ricoh) is a new and inno [...]

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Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 08th May | 0 Comment(s)

New Offering Through Ricoh USA - Disaster Recovery in the Cloud   Ricoh’s approach to disaster recovery for multi-tenant VMware cloud environments offers organizations of any size a unique, cost [...]

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IT Consulting and Programming

Searching for an IBM i Cloud Hosting Provider

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 12th March | 0 Comment(s)

Here are some tips for searching for an IBM i Cloud Hosting Provider: Make sure you go with a IBM i Cloud provider with an established track record and software expertise.   How long ha [...]

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First Option

First Option Newsletter

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 17th December | 0 Comment(s)

Click for newsletter We are approaching the end of 2021 and it's time for our annual newsletter.    The IRS has changed the 1099-NEC printed form to a 3-up copy. For the Recipient or Payer/S [...]

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